[ILUG] please unsibscribe

[Gareth Eason]

	   Dear Colm,

	Since you are not busy at all and have nothing better to do with your 
time, please use your telepathic abilities to just unsibscribe(sic) and 
resubscribe me to the list depending on whether I'm in my office, on 
holidays, working at a remote location, just don't feel like receiving 
ILUG mail for a few days, or combinations of the above. I am too lazy to 
verify that MY e-mail systems work (or spell-check my mails), so I feel 
perfectly justified in laying the blame squarely at your door. Please 
make it all better for me. I feel it only fair to warn you at this point 
that if you unsubscribe me when I didn't intend you to (I will give you 
no warning of my intentions, just to keep you guessing) I will be too 
lazy to look in the list archives and will instead bombard you with more 
whiney e-mails calling both your technical and sexual prowess (and that 
of your family, pets, relatives, friends, etc.) into question.

	I trust, given the importance of me being kept happy, you will be 
pleased to devote an inordinate amount of your freely given personal 
time to dealing with my inabilities to do any of the following:
	1. Use a web interface.
	2. Use a standard mail list admin interface via e-mail
	3. Set up a filter to junk mails I just don't want any more.
	4. Chew my own food.

	Best regards,
	-->Gar




P.S. On a serious note, given this mornings rant on BBC news regarding 
computers being fooled into dialing expensive international or premium 
rate numbers, please write to the BBC (I have) and request that they 
report that this is ONLY a problem for users of Microsoft Windows - and 
that there is a multitude of alternatives available. During their 
coverage of the subject, they questioned what BT could do, what the 
telco regulator could do, and basically managed to not even mention 
Microsoft once during the entire article - never mind actually 
suggesting that perhaps their shoddy security practices might be even 
slightly to blame.






Colm Buckley wrote:
> On 28 Nov 2004, at 23:44, Alan Moyne wrote:
> 
>> I myself have sent over twenty e-mails to the list admin to be 
>> unsubscribed and yet no joy.
> 
> 
> What address are you sending these emails to?  I certainly have not 
> received them.  I have verified that both the listmaster at linux.ie and 
> ilug-owner at linux.ie addresses reach me correctly.
> 
> By the way... *twenty*?  Don't you think that twenty emails without a 
> response is evidence that something else might be wrong?
> 
>> I follow the link on the bottom of the emails and try to unsubscribe, 
>> I am asked for a password that I don't have.  I click on the password 
>> reminder and never receive the reminder emails.
> 
> 
> I have verified that the password reminder system works.  Is it possible 
> that your email client is rejecting the password reminders as spam or 
> something?
> 
>> Is there some command line prompt that this person, myself and all the 
>> other people that bounce to the list have missed.
> 
> 
> No, there is not.
> 
>> OUT of office more than likely means Out of patients.
> 
> 
> A doctor?
> 
>> So, how do you unsubscribe form this list
> 
> 
> You, um, follow the link at the bottom of each list email, enter your 
> email address, click on "unsubscribe"...  if you don't know your 
> password, click on "remind" and it's mailed to you.
> 
> Of course, I'm perfectly happy do to it for you.  Please confirm in a 
> followup email whether you wish to be permanently unsubscribed, marked 
> as "nomail", or what.
> 
>     Colm
>